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Ambrose Maréchal was born on August 28, 1764 near Orléans, France, of a good family.
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Ambrose Maréchal was born on August 28, 1764 near Orléans, France, of a good family.
On graduation from college, he studied law in accordance with parental instructions, although his pronounced inclination was for the ministry. In 1787, as a student in the Sulpician Seminary at Orléans, he received the tonsure and joined the community. Transferred on the eve of the Revolution to the Sulpician Seminary at Bordeaux, he was privately ordained in 1792 and immediately sent to America in company with Abbés Matignon, Richard, and Cicquard.
Arriving in Baltimore June 24, 1792, he said his first mass on July 8 and was assigned to the Maryland missions. Later he taught at Georgetown College and at St. Mary's Seminary, where his exacting course won the approbation of Bishop John Carroll. Recalled by his superior general, who was engaged in reorganizing the French seminaries, he returned to France in 1803 and taught in the theological schools of his community at Saint-Flour, Lyons, Aix, and Marseilles. In 1810, Bishop Concanen of New York, with the approval of Archbishop Carroll, proposed Maréchal as his coadjutor with the right of succession, but nothing came of this plan, presumably because of Sulpician disinclination for an episcopal appointment. When Napoleon withdrew the seminaries from Sulpician control however, Maréchal accepted a reappointment to St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore (1812). Four years later he was nominated to the See of Philadelphia, but his name was withdrawn at his request. Soon Archbishop Neale required a coadjutor and sought Cheverus, who asked to remain in Boston and urged the selection of Maréchal. Neale acquiesced, and Rome named the Abbé a titular bishop and coadjutor of Baltimore (July 24, 1817). Archbishop Neale died before the papal briefs arrived, however, and Maréchal was elevated to the archbishopric. Consecrated by Bishop Cheverus and Bishop Connolly of New York (Dec. 14, 1817), he zealously undertook the management of his vast diocese.
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A mild but firm man, he conducted himself well though confronted with innumerable difficulties: controversies over trusteeism in Norfolk, Charleston, and Philadelphia; a bitter conflict with the Jesuits, over their old manorial estates, which could not be compromised during his rule; malicious suspicions of some Irish born priests that he favored the French and was intent on establishing a French hierarchy; annoying, though futile, clerical appeals to civil authorities quite in conflict with canonical regularities; and wretched ecclesiastical intrigues intended to discredit him with the Propaganda. While the Archbishop may have been anti-Irish and somewhat anti-Jesuit, he was thoroughly American in sympathy, as men like Jefferson and Carroll readily appreciated. Despite the insistence of Bishop England of Charleston, a leader of the Irish element, he refused to summon a national synod, apparently feeling that such a move might aggravate rather than settle the racial afflictions of the Church. Assiduous in visiting the diocese, he gained the warm regard of his people, and with the aid of Rev. Enoch Fenwick, he was able to collect sufficient funds for the completion of the Cathedral (1821), then the finest church in the United States, with a great organ and paintings donated by Louis XVIII and French prelates.
Soon after his return from an ecclesiastical mission to Canada in 1826, realizing that an incipient disease would soon end his working days, he applied for a coadjutor. Death came before the appointment of his vicar general, James Whitfield, was actually made. Though regarded as a man of superior talents and broad intellectual acquirements, Maréchal left no writings save some remarkable pastoral letters, and a few unpublished manuscripts, a fact explained by his own words to Bishop England in reply to a request for material for the Catholic Miscellany: "Such unfortunately have been the austere rules of criticism printed on my institutions in literature that they actually are a torment to myself on a thousand occasions". It was as a teacher and as an administrator in trying times that he merited contemporary renown.